Wido, would this work if I were to run nfs over two or more servers with virtual IP? I can see what you've suggested working in a one server setup. What about if you want to have two nfs servers in an active/backup or active/active setup? Thanks Andrei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wido den Hollander" <wido@xxxxxxxx> To: ceph-users at lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, 7 May, 2014 11:15:39 AM Subject: Re: NFS over CEPH - best practice On 05/07/2014 11:46 AM, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: > Hello guys, > > I would like to offer NFS service to the XenServer and VMWare > hypervisors for storing vm images. I am currently running ceph rbd with > kvm, which is working reasonably well. > > What would be the best way of running NFS services over CEPH, so that > the XenServer and VMWare's vm disk images are stored in ceph storage > over NFS? > Use kernel RBD, put XFS on it an re-export that with NFS? Would that be something that works? I'd however suggest that you use a recent kernel so that you have a new version of krbd. For example Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. > Many thanks > > Andrei > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users at lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > -- Wido den Hollander 42on B.V. Ceph trainer and consultant Phone: +31 (0)20 700 9902 Skype: contact42on _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users at lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/attachments/20140507/10011fe3/attachment.htm>
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